GEMS FROM THE VAULT
Here are some of the editors' favorite Legal Affairs pieces. 2006 Cool Tools for Tyrants The latest American technology helps the Chinese government and other repressive regimes clamp down. By Derek Bambauer January|February Crusaders in Wingtips As American courts give more weight to imported precedents, a band of Christian lawyers is going abroad to shape foreign lawbefore it comes home to hurt their cause. By Rachel Morris March|April 2005 The Enemy Among Us They have grown smaller and quieter over the past decade, but citizen militias are still locked and loaded in rural America. Is the FBI paying attention? By Geoffrey Gagnon November | December Furious George The belligerence of the Bush Administration in pursuing expansive power has a long Republican pedigree. By Neil Kinkopf September|October Lessons From the Swiss Cheese Map Why have Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ignored the importance of good mapmaking? By Shari Motro September|October An Uncivil Division Political appointees to the Justice Department's civil rights division are driving career lawyers to retirementthen skipping the retirement parties. By William R. Yeomans September|October The Dread Pirate Bin Laden How thinking of terrorists as pirates can help win the war on terror. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. July|August Pop Con One of the hot ideas in the legal academy is that the people should have supremacy over the courts. The problem is that the people don't want that. By David A. Strauss March|April The Appearance of Propriety The judicial canons have got it wrong. The real ethical issues facing judges are hidden from view. By Alex Kozinski January|February Man and the Machines It's time to start thinking about how we might grant legal rights to computers. By Benjamin Soskis January|February 2004 Against the Law Reviews Welcome to a world where inexperienced editors make articles about the wrong topics worse. By Richard A. Posner November|December Lost in the Political Thicket The Supreme Court should find something new to say about election lawor start letting others do the talking. By Heather Gerken November|December Continental Divide Americans see privacy as a protection of liberty, Europeans as a protection of dignity. Will one conception trump the otheror are both destined to perish? By Jeffrey Rosen September|October A Bold Stroke When Margaret Marshall was a corporate lawyer, her actions were colored by caution. But in her opinion ordering Massachusetts to allow gay marriages, the chief justice of the state's supreme court has shunned politics and stood on principle. Will she be remembered as the judge who jeopardized her court for a cause? By Emily Bazelon May|June Medea's Shadow Marybeth Davis is serving a life sentence for killing her 3-year-old daughter and severely injuring her infant son. New evidence suggests that Davis might be innocentand that the medical diagnosis used to convict her might be a medical fiction. By Charlotte Faltermayer May|June The Sword of Spitzer A little-known law called the Martin Act gives New York's attorney general extraordinary power, yet for 75 years this Excalibur has been left to rust in its scabbard. Now, Eliot Spitzer is wielding it against the biggest players on Wall Street. Should such a powerful weapon be left in anyone's hands? By Nicholas Thompson May|June Natural Born Killjoy Why the Constitution won't let immigrants run for president, and why that should change. By Akhil Reed Amar March|April 2003 Dante and the Death Penalty How capital punishment fails its audience. By Matthew Pearl November|December Delusions of Grand Juries Everyone knows that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. So why do we bother to use them? By Niki Kuckes November|December Mock Trial's Big Dance Tennessee tries to repeat as national champions. By Brian Montopoli September|October Your Cellphone is a Homing Device Don't want the government to know where you are? Throw away your cell, stop taking the subway, and pay the toll in cash. By Brendan I. Koerner July|August Et Ux A Latin phrase gives voice to the legal rights and privileges of wivesand emphasizes that they still play second fiddle to their husbands. By Kristin Collins May|June Trial by Prosecutor Up against Japan's 99.8 percent conviction rate. By Hiroshi Matsubara March|April 2002 Beverage Control A Los Angeles bartender's dilemma. By Marisa Matarazzo November|December In Search of Lost Crime Bloated bodies, bigamous love, and other literary pleasures of the 19th-century trial transcript. By Caleb Crain July|August 2002 Gun by Gun After almost 100 years of pretending the right to bear arms didn't mean much, judges and scholars are changing their minds. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds May|June Silence! Four ways the law keeps poor people from getting heard in court. By David Luban May|June And other gems written by Legal Affairs' editors and contributors ... |
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